Media Player Classic Codec Pack

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Notethe Basic version does NOT include a player

You need to use it together with an already installed DirectShow player such as Windows Media Player. For playback issues with WMP please read our F.A.Q. for solutions.

This is the recommended variant for the average user. Use this if you don't know what you need. It already contains everything that you need for playback. The extra components that are included in the larger versions provide no benefit for the majority of users.

Important note:

The K-Lite Codec Pack does not expand the import abilities of professional video editors such as Adobe Premiere or Vegas Movie Studio. Those applications often only support importing a small set of file formats, and do not support using the type of codecs that are included in the codec pack (DirectShow/VFW). Modern editors often only use their own internal codecs or only support external codecs of the Media Foundation type.

Detailed differences between the four variants of the codec pack can be found on the comparison of abilities and comparison of contents pages. The other smaller variants are: Basic, Standard, and Full.

To play such videos you need to use the included MPC-HC player and select MPC Video Renderer or Madvr as the video renderer. These video renderers can automatically send the HDR metadata to your TV when it is HDR capable. Otherwise they will convert the video colors to SDR so you can watch it on a normal monitor/TV.

MPC-HC is capable of playing Blu-ray discs. There are just two limitations:

1) It doesn't support Blu-ray menus. It automatically plays the longest title on the disc. Other titles can be accessed through the Navigate menu of the player.

2) The disc must be decrypted using an external tool. For example AnyDVD HD or Passkey Lite.

The codec pack contains a plugin for decoding H.264 MVC 3D Video. To properly watch such videos you should use the included MPC-HC player (64-bit version) and select Madvr as the video renderer. Outputting 3D video to your monitor/TV requires Windows 8.x/10 (or Windows 7 with a modern NVIDIA GPU).

I use it quite often, both at home and at work. It is quick, easy to use, and can play a wide variety of formats. It would be great if I could use it for Blu-Ray and 4KBR discs as well, but I usually circumvent that issue by ripping the discs to Matroska Video File format, which VLC can play easily.

VLC plays everything you throw a it. It is the only player where I have not experienced weird playbacks, stuttering or blank screens.

Built-in DVD playback as well as playing back many file types and folders with tons of media file types in them.

Will also open live streaming for Security Cameras and others which I use quite a bit.

K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) is one of the most complete and up-to-date codec packages for both video and audio. Thanks to this package, you can play practically any movie or audio file you have stored locally on your computer. No matter your preferred player, with these codecs, you can access any video or audio file you want.

The installation of this package includes several video players, among them the well-known Media Player Classic and BSplayer, two of the most popular and well-established players. K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) is the easiest way to get the decoders needed to view any movie, video clip, or video fragment you've recorded and exported to your PC.

The main difference between this FULL version of K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) and the STANDARD version is that this one includes the ability to play two formats not included with STANDARD. These two formats are OptimFrog and Tracker, both of which are uncommon. With the FULL version, you'll have no problem listening to any file with the following extensions: .it, .mo3, .mtm, .s3m, .umx, .xm, .ofr, and .ofs.

As usual with K-Lite codec packs, K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) also includes a number of configuration tools and filters to provide better image quality and performance. In short, if you ever have problems playing a file, don't hesitate to install this application and put an end to these errors and incompatibility problems.

Yes, K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) is fully compatible with Windows 11. This program works perfectly with the following versions of Windows: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11.

Each version of K-Lite Codec Pack has its advantages and disadvantages, but none of them is better or worse than the others. K-Lite Codec Pack (Full), for example, has almost the same features as the Mega version, except for a couple of supported formats.

This is the best powerful program for every version of Windows I ever had; It's magically reads/supports any video and audio format, so we never see problems by using it! Thanks to K-Lite (Mega) and U...See more

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Download the codec. Though there are several sites that provide opensource codecs for free, there are few that provide closed source too. I have found Final build site to be quite good and provides almost all codecs. If you dont have any codecs at all I do suggest you to install Klite codec Pack and have some basic codecs to start with.

If you have started using Media Player classic without any change then you are most probably using FFmpeg codecs. These are very good codecs and use libavcodec for most of the decoding. It decodes most formats however not all of them perfectly. Now that you have your new filter installed.

For casual users, I recommend using MPC. It is easy to configure, and really user friendly. Performance may not be as efficient as mpv, but its ease of use and forgoing command line / config files in favor for a proper UI makes it the better choice for casual users.

MPC-HC is also very flexible with external components. One of the reason it has maintained its relevance after 17+ years is relying on external components/filters, allowing to decode modern formats despite its age.

MadVR is a powerful DirectShow renderer to to replace the antiquated enhanced video renderer from the Windows XP days. It is crucial to use MadVR as it not just provides powerful scalers and filtering functionality, but also fixes some errors with the default renderer (e.g. 10-bit video has incorrect pixelated chroma with the default renderer).

MadVR can be installed by simply extracting the zip file to a safe location and running install.bat with admin rights. MadVR does not copy the files as it installs in whatever directory you have the folder extracted in.

Pretty self explanatory. Formats might be a bit frustrating to register the app as the default app. You will need to click Run as Admin, select video/audio/both, click done and done again, and then you can register MPC as the default app in Windows settings (thanks Microsoft! /s).

Self explanatory. Fast seek (keyframe) allows faster seeking, but since it uses keyframes some videos will seek rather far away from preset time. Disable fast seek if you must seek exact time defined in your jump distances.

One important setting is the calibration of your monitor if you have a wide gamut display. Ideally you want to setup with custom 3DLut, but proper equipment is expensive. If you know your screen is close to DCI-P3, you can just set your calibration to assume a DCI-P3 monitor. This fixes oversaturation issues on BT.709 videos (which pretty much 99% of the videos out there are).

Note that if you apply gamut clamping/remap, screenshots will look unsaturated on sRGB devices as they are color clamped to display sRGB values on a wide-gamut color space. (i.e. red [255,0,0] on sRGB/BT.709 will be clamped to [233,54,40] in DCI-P3)

Display modes allows you to switch monitor supported refresh rates in certain conditions. Back when I used SVP with a 60Hz monitor, I had MadVR change to 48Hz (custom res setup in Nvidia Panel) in full screen. This section is irrelevant for people with high refresh monitors.

For debanding, I recommend the light filter for my provided hlsl (see shaders on how to set it up) and only use Medium/Strong for WEB or older content. For MadVR deband, I recommend Medium strength + High Fade-In/Out for Anime. (ONLY choose one debanding filter to use, not both!)

Chroma Upscaling: Jinc should be sufficient for mid-ranged GPU. Only use NGU if you got a really high end GPU and require 2x resolution. Spline is a good quality fallback that uses much less resource usage compared to Jinc. Stick with Bilinear if you have a potato PC. Remember to activate anti-ringing filter when applicable.

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